UE on form which is a server side include

Hi , could someone please shed light on this for me?
i have a contact form which is now working fine, however when I add the file as a server side include i get the message before the form

"Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/content/62/7301162/html/contact-us.php:8) in /home/content/62/7301162/html/webassist/form_validations/wavt_validatedform_php.php on line 3'

I filled it in for the shear hell of it and got multiple messages like this but the mail arrived as normal.

so my first question is can UE 4 be used with includes and if not (why not) would I have to purchase the framework extension.

Thank you in advance for any advices given

the issue is that using a server side include will place the php code in the HTML body. It will still run, but the Universal Email code will need to double check that the session is started, and it will use the header function to redirect after sending the mail.


The php header() and session_start() functions cannot be used after there is any html output to the page.


the Universal Email code needs to be in the page before the html doctype tag to ensure that there is no html output on the page before the UE code gets run.


using the PHP Framework to include the page will separate the PHP code that comes before the doctype tag and the html code in the body tag and place the different code chunks on the page in the correct place to avoid this issue.

Thank you Jason,
I did use ADDT with CS3. I only really use things like a callback form on each page and up to now I have been using an ordinary include with a product that calls the php script file in the action field of the form. With no ill effects. I swapped to UE because of the file upload functionality and Captcha (form toolkit). Just Feel a little strained that it looks like I have to make another wa purchase to get back to what i have been doing already.